polluer
\pɔ.lɥe\
The verdict
“polluer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,084. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,084
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rejeter des produits nocifs dans l’environnement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-polluer · polluer · French
polluer · rank #29,084 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,084
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pochettes
Nearest frequency peer: pochettes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « polluer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plaisanteri…
plaisanteries
70,920 corpus weight
- Pline
Pline
70,919 corpus weight
- pochettes
pochettes
70,918 corpus weight
- polluer
polluer
70,917 corpus weight
- pontificat
pontificat
70,916 corpus weight
- prada
prada
70,915 corpus weight
What this shows « polluer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polluer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.lɥe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,084 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « polluer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around polluer (IPA \pɔ.lɥe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,084 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for polluer, with forms such as "oplluer", "ploluer", and "polleur". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Pollux", "pollués", "pollueurs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is polluer, spelled P-O-L-L-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rejeter des produits nocifs dans l’environnement.
- 2Profaner et souiller, généralement un lieu saint.
- 3Salir ses draps, ses vêtements, par une éjaculation nocturne et involontaire, dite pollution nocturne.
- 4Se souiller du péché d’impureté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polluer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'« éventrement » d'un supertanker menace la vie d'un petit équipage, mais pollue une fraction notable de la Manche ou de la mer du Nord.
Polluer les choses saintes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplluer
- ploluer
- polleur
- polluerr
- pollure
- poluer
- poluler
- ppolluer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polluer - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).